Blog : Background Maps

Mapflow is a cutting-edge geospatial intelligence platform leveraging artificial intelligence to automatically identify and classify geographic objects—such as buildings, roads, and forested areas—within satellite and aerial imagery. MapFlow enables high-precision detection and segmentation, transforming geospatial imagery into... more


The Farm Service Agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) provides some web services for accessing the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP). Spatial Manager products provide an easy way to integrate its ortoimagery on your own projects and drawings... more


The Street View palette in ‘Spatial Manager’ (CAD versions) allows you to visualize dynamic Google Street View images directly in your CAD application by selecting a point on any geo-referenced drawing. There is no need to enter street or road... more


‘Airbus OneAtlas’ service provide access to high-resolution satellite imagery, innovative geospatial analytics and industry-specific insights. This post explains how to configure ‘Spatial Manager’ Background Maps in order to dynamically access OneAtlas imagery from your maps or drawings in AutoCAD, BricsCAD,... more


‘Spatial Manager’ (CAD versions) allows you to capture Background Maps areas as static images in various image formats, but also as OLE images embedded in the drawing, which simplifies the storage or sharing of the drawing in a single file... more


The Background Maps technology built into ‘Spatial Manager’ allows access to user-defined WMTS, WMTS and XYZ/TMS map servers, but also includes access to some of the most widely used image map servers, such as OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Mapbox, Bing, and... more